1. Revengance

About a month ago we did a hands on with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and it was brilliant. Now we get our hands on the full game and this just may be the best action game, channeling the very soul of Rajnikanth inspired action into one focused laser of a package. Here’s why.

2. Metal Gear

If the Metal Gear in the name does sound familiar, that's because Rising is an offshoot of the popular Metal Gear Solid series created by legendary game designer Hideo Kojima. While Solid is more of a sneaking, covert ops game, Rising is all out action. At the helm of the game is a veteran action game studio called Platinum Games backed by Kojima productions and Konami. A killer combination.

3. Dark Passenger

The game follows a character from the Solid series called Raiden, and the game takes place in 2018 where cyborgs and human augmentation is power and these outfits control the tides of politics. Raiden is troubled by his dark past, a child soldier in the Liberian war, leading him to join a paramilitary group called Maverick. On one fateful mission, Raiden is severely injured by a mysterious, terrorist outfit known only as Desperado, and led by a dangerous man called Sundowner. After having barely survived, Raiden, aided by an enigmatic team and a cyborg dog called Bladewolf, embarks on a mission of revenge, rather, revengeance.

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4. Ninja Rajni

In a nutshell, if you are fimiliar with games like God of War and Devil May Cry. then you will feel comfortably at home with Revengeance. An action game that employs the use of multiple combo based action, to gain points which result in more moves and stylish kills. Like Devil May Cry, Revengeance seems to be also highly inspired by Rajnikanth movies, as each cutscene features over the top cyborg slicing and dicing action that will keep you glued to the very fringes of entertained disbelief.

5. Zandatsu

Raiden is a cyborg ninja with some extreme moves at his disposal. Once you get the Zandatsu power, the party starts full power. Essentially using that power you go into something called Blade Mode that lets you cut up things with your awesome electric vibrating sword. This is the biggest selling point of the game and one of the first games that actually lets you cut enemies into itty bitty bite sized chunks. So if you are faint of stomach, then stop reading now.

6. Slice of Heaven

This feature alone is full paisa vasool, and increases the replayability of the game by leagues. Entering blade mode will slow things down and you clean slice through cars, cyborgs, robots and everything in between, leaving the parts burning at the edges in a cool effect. This becomes a sort of a puzzle game in the midst of the combat, where if you slice enemies correctly leaving their spines intact, Raiden can absorb their energy to replenish the energy to use blade mode. An extremely fun addition to the action game formula.

7. Moves Like Raiden

In addition to these attacks, Raiden has got a flashy moveset. The fluidity by which each move moves from light to heavy and flows, as Raiden swirls his blade slicing using both his arms and his legs. Which is fantastic, like poetry in motion aided by lots of pyrotechnics. You can mash buttons madly but the best way to get the most out of the game is to master the combos, which are decently tough to master, but very rewarding in effect.

8. Bosses

The end level bosses of Revengeance are truly frightening, challenging and sometimes towering. Sundowner and his homies are a bunch of mean and weird cyborgs. You have a woman with many arms, a guy that can break into slices and manipulate those slices around. All these guys require real skill to beat, on normal difficulty setting you can’t just go in blade swirling and hope to defeat these guys. Masterfully crafted.

9. Graphics

Its like every game coming out today keeps pushing the envelope in graphics. Revengeance is no slouch, despite it running on the consoles now showing their age, it still has some intense graphics. Especially the slicing parts, just make you want to keep slicing anything in sight to see how the physics engine lets those parts fall, or shlop down. Intense.

10. Verdict

So far there’s not one bad thing about the game with the exception perhaps on the price. Which is a whopping Rs. 3499. Thats higher than anything out there, and quite the steep price for a 5-6 hour game. With probably 2-3 playthroughs. Though if you want to experience what could be one of the best action games this season, with amazing slicing action and a fantastic story. Look no further than Revengeance.